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Does anyone else listen to any D&D podcasts?
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- Title
- The Beginning of the Worst Heroes EVER | Infinight Interns | Ep 01
- Authors
- Tales From The Stinky Dragon
- Duration
- 37:54
- Published
- May 15 2023
My D&D group and I all absolutely love “Not Another D&D Podcast”. It has Jake from Jake and Amir, and a few other College Humor people. The DM is fantastic and the group has really good chemistry overall. It takes a few episodes for them to hit their stride, but it’s really good. Their first campaign had 100 episodes, and they’re on their 3rd now.
They do a fantastic job of pacing, especially since they do a lot of editing to cut out a lot of uninteresting bits (like looking up rules/details, tallying rolls, etc.). I enjoyed the bits of Critical Role I've watched but that's my biggest struggle with them, as combat can become a slog.
Murph allowing the 'rule of cool' when it comes to combat makes for excellent listening as well.
What do you think of the subsequent campaigns? For me nothing has managed to top the first one, the only exception being the hot boy summer side story, which was hilarious from beginning to end.
Yeah, I think for me campaign one is the peak. I really appreciate what Murph was trying to do with campaign 2, but it just didn’t quite work for me, I was honestly struggling to follow all of the different people and events at time. I absolutely loved Hot Boy Summer and Trinyvale, and campaign 3 is joining that rank as well for me!
That's really good to hear! I finished campaign 2, but I wasn't feeling it and dropped off shortly after. I actually can't pinpoint why it didn't work for me. I just didn't care about these characters as much. Had a hard time letting go of the fact that they weren't Hardwon, Moonshine and Beverly. I'll have to give campaign 3 a try.
Yeah, campaign 3 definitely has the same epic feel as one, with really fun characters. Highly recommended!
Listened to the first arc of Adventure Zone. Also watch a few of the Dropout ttrpgs shows.
Listened to the first arc of TAZ. Then followed up with Dungeons and Daddies.
I enjoyed TAZ Balance a lot but I couldn't get into the following arcs. I think I just got attached to the characters they played rather than the podcast itself. Dungeons and Daddies is a really good one, too. I haven't listened to a lot of it yet, but I've liked what I've heard.
Same for me in terms of the first TAZ arc. Kind of the same for dungeons and daddies, but with that show the players personalities are a lot more central to the sense of humor.
If you haven't given it a spin in awhile, Justin has started running a game that is basically a heist movie set in a Disney World environment, and it's pretty wonderful.
I am a huge fan of RoosterTeeth’s “Tales from the Stinky Dragon” Dungeons and Dragons show. They recently just started campaign 2. I linked a YouTube video of the first session from campaign 1 if anyone wanted to give it a try.
Most people have heard of “Critical Role” or “Dungeons and Daddies”.
I think what I like most about TFTSD is how everyone has amazing chemistry and years of experience working together in sketch comedy and other projects.
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Long-time listener of Dungeons and Daddies here. It is such an amazing listen, especially season 1. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
I watched Acquisitions Inc for a while, though haven’t kept up (I think there’s some more recent stuff). Live play by the Penny-Arcade guys and friends, DM’d by D&D senior story designer Chris Perkins.
I do. I'm not a huge Critical Role fan, I think it just takes itself a little seriously and the humour that's there isn't to my taste, although the actual acting is great and Matt is a fantastic DM.
I really enjoy The Adventure Zone (even if they do fudge rolls to ensure the story can move in the direction they want).
I also really enjoy Not Another D&D Podcast and Dimension 20. Brennan Lee Mulligan is a really great DM who is able to balance the high levels of comedy in his D&D games with a few serious moments. He's also got a really solid grasp of the rules.
While not a D&D podcast I also enjoy Film Reroll, if you've never watched it they take a film premise and the players try to reenact the events of the film which very rarely works out. The Back to the Future 2 one is a fun one to start with as it just goes off the rails.
Film Reroll has some amazing episodes. Home Alone was my gateway session.
I adore The Film Reroll, but I find that since they've started playing remotely that some of the same energy isn't there any more. They're still excellent of course, and it's never not hilarious when things go off the rails (Last Action Hero was a particular recent favourite). I recommend the podcast to literally everyone! To be honest I think a large part of why it's so good is that they've always been committed to good editing. I have tried other actual play podcasts before and they always seem so lightly edited (if at all) that it ruins the vibe for me. I play D&D myself, so I know that there are ebbs and flows in a session, but it doesn't make for great radio to include the ebbs, IMHO.
I don't go in for D&D podcasts that are just playing the game. I do go in for podcasts about D&D, improving the game, and lore. TheDMsLair, MrRhexx, AJ Pickett, D&DDeepDive, DungeonDad, Jorphdan, that sort of thing.
Brian Posehn's Nerd Poker is the only one I keep up with. It's made up of comics and I appreciate the generally laid-back tone. Hate to say that the last couple of seasons haven't been as good, but I still recommend going through the early ones. Earlier bonus episodes are also pretty great, and they have some really entertaining guests (Patreon only).
Just be aware if you're the type to take the game seriously, you'll get annoyed pretty quickly. Brian is infamously bad at D&D, despite playing for decades. But that's part of the charm.
I don't listen to any D&D podcasts (I used to listen to Adventure, Inc but fell out of it), but I do listen to other TTRPG actual plays. Astronomica and 7th Star To The Right (Stars Without Number), PodByNight (V:tM), Resting Glitch Face and Burning Edge (Shadowrun) are all very good RPG podcasts.
Worlds Beyond Number from Brennan Lee Mulligan is amazing.
I'm so irrationally upset that this dude used that name for a podcast.
Like, the fact that there's a series of pretty successfully indie RPGs that use the X Without Number naming scheme makes it so frustrating.
I get he probably just didn't know, but come on.
Also, yeah, this. I'll admit, I thought when I read this it was going to be a Worlds Without Number podcast. But, still gonna check it out, because it may be good.
Another podcast to check out, thanks!
I like Roleplaying Public Radio but they're not specifically D&D so much as a mix of different game systems.
Not D&D, but Friends at the Table is easily my favorite tabletop rpg podcast.
A very fun one from a while ago was CritJuice. Starts off with one campaign in 4e before moving to 5e with the newer one. Haven't seen anything from them in a while but if you like hearing a bunch of comedians get drunk and play dnd I can highly recommend it.
I've been recently watching some of the Oxventure campaign from the Outsidexbox people. Not really a cohesive campaign, but pretty entertaining as they learn the rules along the way.
I've listened to The Adventure Zone and Nerd Poker in the past, but haven't kept up in recent years.
I'm a NADDPOD, Dungeons and Daddies, Dimension 20, Film Reroll (GURPS not D&D). I've dabbled in some others but haven't been hooked.
Edit: I LIED. Worlds Beyond Number is fantastic too
I've been watching Third Floor Wars' Forbidden Lands Streams (on YouTube and Twitch). Not only is their content engaging, but I find the interactions between the Game Master, Craig , and the players to a gold standard for how to lead a TTRPG session while allowing players to contribute to world building. On a similar note, the streams provide an example of how scheduling conflicts can lead to more varied, positive character develop as multiple players have stepped up to play the same character.
I am largely turned off by podcasts that cover campaigns. Most of them are staffed by comedians who might be able to run a set, but are trying so hard to be funny off-the-cuff that it becomes cringe for me. But I do enjoy podcasts about gaming.
One I'd recommend, though it hasn't been updated in awhile, is Blogs on Tape. It's mostly OSR focused, and while I am not a strictly OSR GM, I am a shameless thief of ideas and its been good to sample blogs from across the internet in audio-format.
Though I'm into D&D, I do enjoy listening to GM word of the week. Which seems to have a heavy D&D table top lore focus. If you're interested in what makes the game works and its history, I highly recommend it.